Introduction to Wind Energy
EK 132 Wind Energy Professor Grace Marta Mota Wind Farms & Health Impact Although more people are turning to wind turbines as a source of renewable and green energy, many concerns about the health of the people who live close to wind farms have been brought up. Wind turbines emit noise, impacting the health […]
Hate Windows, Not Wind Turbines Windows kill over one hundred million birds each year in the United States alone, that’s over ninety nine million nine hundred and eighty thousand more than wind turbines, yet you don’t see people protesting the use of windows.1 In fact, a study conducted by the AWEA in 2006 concluded that […]
Finding the most reliable, efficient source of energy is quite possibly the most important challenge that we face today. Currently, fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal dominate the energy market. Why is this? Simply put, they’re cheaper. If history has taught us one thing, it’s that newer technology is always more expensive.8 However, […]
Do wind turbines have any negative effects on human health? This is a subject that has been debated and so far, the results have been split. There have been many reports about how people living near wind turbines have been getting sick because of it. However, there have been some that argue that maybe many […]
Many countries and people around the world give America a bad rap when it comes to renewable energy. The according to the German Wind Energy Association, the EU, a group of 26 countries, produces 100GW of power from wind energy; America, a single country, produces 50GW of wind energy annually (Energy Report). Why then […]
For a couple of decades now, people have been debating over the benefits and costs of wind turbines and wind as a renewable energy resource. Specifically there have been debates of the pros and cons of using offshore wind for energy. Many of the same arguments for and against onshore wind farms are used in […]
Greg Pica Professor Grace EK 131 Wind Energy 2 December 2012 Assessing the Health Effects of Wind Turbines With the rise of vast amounts of renewable energy across the world, wind energy has got to be one of the most recognized of the bunch. It has primarily been praised for its many environmental […]
Wenyuan Yin Ek132 Wind energy is a clean energy that can be converted into wind power of which wind turbines is the most useful method to make electrical power. Compared to fossil fuels, wind power has obvious advantages. For example, wind power is renewable, plentiful, widely distributed and does not emit green house gases[1]. The […]
Jeremy Lee Today, wind energy is one of the fastest growing renewable energy sources in the world. By creating a source of electricity without the air pollution of fossil fuels, wind energy has provided a feasible, “clean” way to power homes and other electronics across the world. From 2000 to 2009 alone, wind energy capacity […]
How France can learn from Germany’s wind energy success Take a look at energy production in Germany and it is clear that wind energy has been developed with great success. The puzzling thing is that France, a neighbor to Germany, has not experienced the same level of success in wind energy development. Taking a deep […]